Health

A round up of The Baltimore Banner's cannabis coverage.

A liver transplant saved the life of Morris Murray. Now he wants others living with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis to know that they, too, can receive and donate organs.

People who are 21 and older will be able to legally purchase cannabis starting Saturday in Maryland.

It’s still illegal — and risky — for anyone under 21 to use marijuana.

The Mayor’s Office of Aging would focus on topics such as income maintenance, housing and personal care services.

One in three shooting deaths involve heavy drinking, but alcohol use is not widely addressed in public policy or violence prevention programs, Johns Hopkins researchers found.

Age-related macular degeneration is incurable, but Marylanders are getting better treatment for it now, physicians say.

Some 5.1 million Marylanders live in areas that are failing to meet EPA‘s ground-level ozone standards and suffering adverse health effects, including higher levels of asthma.

The measure was introduced five years after Jordan McNair, a University of Maryland football player, collapsed due to heatstroke during practice and later died.

Juice bar organizers want to promote entrepreneurship and healthiness one sip at a time.

Family members with their own work and family obligations are having to step in, and often cannot provide the level or frequency of care that their loved ones need.

The harm reduction model, which has received endorsement and funding from the Biden administration, offers potentially life-saving services to opioid users, without requiring abstinence in return.

Johns Hopkins APL scientists are figuring out how to get so-called “forever chemicals” used in products and packaging out of the environment so they can’t harm people or animals.

Reducing Maryland’s high rate of opioid overdose deaths will require improved approaches by the state’s health care providers, says Dr. Enrique Oviedo, a psychiatrist who serves as medical director of MATClinics.

The attackers targeted a “previously unknown vulnerability in the widely used software MOVEit,” the letter said.

Johns Hopkins’ definition of lesbians as “non-men” triggered online outrage from both the right and left, labels of misogyny and even criticism from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

Remote Area Medical’s free pop-up clinic in Northeast Baltimore drew hundreds of people who've fallen through the cracks of Maryland’s fragmented health insurance system.

The University of Maryland Medical System’s rehab center near Woodlawn, formerly known as Kernan Hospital, will shutter in three years and trauma rehab will move to downtown Baltimore.

Twenty one percent of the first Marylanders who've had to renew their Medicaid coverage post-pandemic have lost it because they either did not receive notices or could not overcome administrative hurdles.

The Air Quality Index in Baltimore and the surrounding region improved markedly Friday morning to “acceptable” levels, meaning only those who are especially sensitive to air pollution need to remain cautious.